McCrary v. Poythress’s Empirical Analysis
638 F.2d 1308 · 1981
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Sossamon v. Lone Star (2009), Roofing & Sheet Metal Services, Inc. v. La Quinta Motor Inns, Inc. (1982)
14 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Rhodes · Illinois State Board of Elections v. Socialist Workers Party · Jenness v. Fortson · American Party of Texas v. White · California Department of Human Resources Development v. Java
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not confronted with the burdens faced by independent or third party Presidential candidates who encounter widely varying restrictions on access to state ballots in the course of the extended Presidential campaign season. Several factors peculiar to our only nationwide election would then have to be considered in balancing the state’s interest in reasonable ballot control against the candidate’s right of access.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appellant 'has presented no evidence creating a reasonable expectation that the [Commission] will repeat its purportedly unauthorized actions in subsequent elections. Appellant's conclusory assertions that the actions are capable of repetition are not sufficient....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ragsdale v. Turnock
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.